Off to meet the Rolling Bones

We met at the Copper Lantern for breakfast Sunday morning at 6:30. After a great meal we left at 7:30, headed down Highway 10 to Monticello to meet 2 more cars.There was my black RPU, my blue roadster driven by Darrin, Terry Y and his 34 Chevy, Terry N with the 40 coupe and Lumpy in the Divco beer truck. The meeting place was Holiday station....news to me, there is one on each side of the highway and of course I stopped at the east side and they were waiting on the west side...after a few minutes of waiting, Lumpy called their cell and we found them. So it was off to the other station. We picked up Eugene in his deuce roadster and John in his 34 Ford delivery.
I was appointed the leader so off we went on I94, to 494 thru the city and south on I35....traffic was light, a cool Sunday morning so we were "rolling".... 80 to 85. The first gas stop was Lakeville, we all got gas and off again to Clear lake, IA for the next gas stop and to pick up Randy in his 41 Packard. I called Dave to let him know we were on time, in fact about 45 minutes early. Back onto I35 to Des Moines. We made it to Dave's shop about 12:45. There he made us a great pork sandwich. We toured his shop and looked at his toys. His buddy Matt with his 50's built Deuce 5 window came too.
We headed across town to the motel where we were to meet the "Bones". Checked in and set up camp in the back of the hotel lot, canopy, tapped the keg, set up a couple of grills and set back to enjoy.
The bones arrived about 6 PM with the last of them arriving about 7ish. I think there were 10 rods, two trucks/trailers with race cars and a race bike. There were about 6 other local rods that came to the party too.
Monday morning the Bones and the Hoodlums had breakfast at the cool diner next door. After breakfast we all got into our cars and headed out, the Hoodlums up state 65 and the Bones headed west on I80. It was a fun time.
We toured the auto museum in the little town of Williams, IA. They have a very nice display of many neat old cars. Then it was over to I35 and headed north towards home.
Just south of the cities we had a couple close encounters with a couple of state troopers but it all worked out fine.
I arrived home about 4:30. The GPS showed 700 miles exactly. The "fun meter" was pegged all the way.......a real fun time. Thanks to all the Hoodlums that came along with me, now they know how my summers go. Eight hot rods, eleven hoodlums, 700 miles, one keg of beer equals a fun weekend!!

Hot Rod Hoodlums meet up with the Rolling Bones of NY

Sunday morning we are meeting at the Copper Lantern at 6:30 for breakfast. We will leave at 7:30 for Des Moines. There will be three 32's, a 34 Chevy, 40 Ford,55 Divco beer truck,I think John will be in his 34 Ford, in Clear Lake, IA we pick up a 30something Packard. That should make eight rods with 13 guys.
Plans are to meet at my friend Dave's shop for a great pork tenderloin sandwich lunch about 1:30 PM. After lunch and a tour of Dave's shop and toys we will all head over to Motel 6 in Altoona to meet with the Rolling Bones. There we will cook burgers in the lot, drink beer and tell stories.......fun!! Dave and his son Kevin will drive with us in their 409 powered Model A Ford, as well as another friend, Matt in his channeled deuce 5window.

When we return Monday night, I plan to post photos and update the weekend events. I am not taking the laptop with me. Check in after Monday night for the latest update.

Thursday/Sunday

The open house party at Brite's was great. Pulled pork and all the fixins, some real cool projects in the shop. There were lots of cars and people.

Friday was a gorgeous day, cloudy and highs in the 80's. I walked the park over and over. Saw many friends from all over. Lots and lots of beautiful cars......all modified in some way, from mild to wild. I bought several pinstripe art work pieces. Did you ever see a pig fink?? a piggy bank painted like a rat fink!! cool !

Saturday.....it was HOT....107 I think it was...it was unreal. We left the park about 4;30 and went to eat and cool off. My shirt was wet all day. Saturday night was a great gathering in the hotel lot, cars cruising thru, flame throwers burning, like we needed more heat!! It was a fun day even tho it was so hot.

Sunday...hot again. The best thing Sunday was watching Steve collect all the awards for his Pontiac. He walked away with 5 of them!! Pretty cool. Congrats Steve. We spent the night in Salina, had one last dinner with several friends.

Monday.....We left about 9 AM drove to Sioux Falls. Arrived there about 7 PM. Kind of a long day. We are all tired from the weekend and the heat is still here. It was 100 all day driving thru Kansas and Nebraska and into South Dakota. Twice we were stuck on the roadside waiting for a pilot truck to guide us down a one lane construction road. We had to open the hood and turn off the engine. Sunday night we drove thru town about 9 miles, going 30 to 35 mph, AC on high and the temp gauge was stuck at 200.......not bad. Stopped on the highway, in the hot sun, even with all 3 fans on, it puked over......the hood was so hot I had to use a towel to open it. It still fired right up when it was our turn to go down the one laner.

Tuesday......Jerry needs to go to Dakota Digital to get something checked, so that is the plan at 9 AM, then off to drive the last 200+ miles to get home. The heat index is still 100 here at 10 PM. It will be good to get home.

This weekend (Sunday) will be the roadster trip to Des Moines to meet up with the Rolling Bones guys for a party in the parking lot. That should be lots of fun.....stay tuned.

Arrived in Salina !!

We woke up to cloudy skies and a little rain. We just had another cup of coffee and waited for it to stop. The rain didn't seem to cool anything off. It was a good drive, uneventful. The Vintage Air works well. The two vents that I changed around really helped the cooling. The motor ran 195 to 200 all day, so she was cool too.

We arrived in Salina about 5:30. Steve and Deb had just pulled in a few minutes before. They drove 13 hours straight thru to get here, we stopped for lunch and a few breaks and drove about seven hours.

When we arrived the temp was 114 degrees, not heat index but the real deal....it was HOT !! Today, Thursday is to cool down to a 100. Its going to be hot, but all the cool cars will help us make it thru the heat.

Tonight is a shop party at Brite Built Hot Rods with "free food" and then a cruise up and down Santa Fe St. The street will be blocked off so only the show cars will be allowed to cruise. Should be fun.

Stay tuned for more details later.

On the road again......KKOA in the Buick

We meet Doris and Jerry Johnson this morning to drive to Salina, KS to the KKOA Leadsled Spetacular.
As we got in and hit the keys, Jerry's car did nothing. We traced the neutral safety wires from the ignition to the switch, no juice, after wiggling the wire on the ignition plug, we got juice to the switch, but still no fire, next I stuck the test prob on the purple wire on the solenoid and hit the key, bingo it fired. At the first rest stop, the same thing, no fire, used the probe and bingo. Its like the solenoid sticks. From there on it has worked fine.
Other than that we had a great leisurely cruise down highway 23 to Sioux Falls, south on I29 to Vermillion, SD for the night. We arrived about 5PM, found a nice place to eat and have a cold beer.
In the morning we continue south and west to Highway 81. That will be a straight shot south to Salina. Today was a mere 300 miles, tomorrow about the same. Its been a good trip so far. It was hot and humid in SD and have severe thunder warnings tonight until 4AM.

Home again

We got home yesterday about 3 PM. It was a good trip, almost 2200 miles and only a couple of hiccups. Not bad for a brand new car with only 200 miles on it when we left.
Sorry about no posts for few days, I could not get the laptop to connect after Wednesday. Not sure what the deal is, it works fine here at home.

The show was outstanding, 7000 cars, a nice indoor swap meet, large vendor building with AC and a ton of outdoor vendors. The car quality is outstanding. Pros pick area had so many beautiful cars.
This show runs autocross for 3 days, they really pound the cars around the course. The muscle car of the year is crowned here and they have to run the course, some go all out.
A new 3W by master builder Dave Lane won the street rod of the year, a beautiful car. Mustard yellow, it beat out several nice cars including the Dale Boesch built
5W that was at Des Moines, I would hate to choose between the two.
We won the "You Gotta Drive 'em" award...that was a way cool honor!! To drive thru the awards building at the Nats is a great time. We did it a couple of years ago with the Buick too, always nice.
The Ridler winning 56 Ford was there, the 59 Imperial Speedster was really neat to see in person, check this months Hot Rod mag for details, just so many knock out cars.
I was invited to tour the Richard Munz collection in Madison at noon on Monday, just could not get there by then without some real early starts and long days....darn!! That would be a real neat tour, maybe next time. He has many beautiful cars.

Today I cleaned the 3W inside and out, top and bottom, looks better now. I put a spacer under the carb so it will start when hot easier, adjusted the turn signals (had them hooked up backwards in the front!! LOL ). Replaced the coil wire with a red one, used a gray one for the roadside fix.
Tomorrow it is "get the Buick ready time" She is going to Salina,KS in a week or so. "KKOA Lead sled Spectacular"..... needs a oil change, repack the bearings, grease the joints, move the AC vents, and clean it real good.

more pics of the 50's town

Such a neat place.....................